Unable to delete Search.OffersBar.com virus – Learn the redirect virus removal guides to get rid of Search.OffersBar.com from your PC

Get redirected to Search.OffersBar.com repeatedly? You cannot get rid of it from your browser? No worries. We provide a step-by-step guide in this post to remove Search.OffersBar.com from your computer.

Information about Search.OffersBar.com

Search.OffersBar.com is a new browser hijacker virus. Until now, it has attacked lots of computers around the world. In order to deceive you, Search.OffersBar.com pretends to be a legal search engine and claims that it can provide more accurate information to you. If it’s installed, it will produce many troubles. First of all, Search.OffersBar.com is able to modify the browsers and DNS settings. As a result, your homepage and default search engine are replaced by Search.OffersBar.com.

Besides, the virus adds many phonographic and advertisement websites to your browsers as bookmarks. Secondly, when you use Search.OffersBar.com to search information, you can’t get any useful result and all your search requests are redirected to irrelevant websites. Thirdly, Search.OffersBar.com produces tons of pop-up advertisements which show up every time when your computer is connected to the Internet. Last but not the least, hackers use Search.OffersBar.com to steal your personal data and monitor your browser activities. When they get the records made by Search.OffersBar.com, they will pick up vulnerable information and sell it on the black market.

Additionally, they will send spam e-mails to you accordingly and steal money from your online bank accounts. Therefore, to avoid greater damages and losses, we strongly recommend you use professional antivirus programs to remove as soon as possible.

Manual Way to Remove Search.OffersBar.com

Step1. Eradicate items generated by Search.OffersBar.com from browser settings.

Internet Explorer
Access ‘Toolbars and Extensions’, ‘Search Providers’ (under “Manage add-ons” in Tools Menu) respectively to remove items related to Search.OffersBar.com.

Mozilla Firefox
Access ‘Add-ons’, ‘plugins’ panel (under “Options” in Tools Menu) respectively to remove items related to Search.OffersBar.com.

Google Chrome
Access “Extensions” (under “Tools” in spanner icon menu) to remove items related to Search.OffersBar.com.

Opera
Access “Manage Extensions” (under “Extensions” in Opera menu) to remove items related to Search.OffersBar.com.

Step2. modify values and remove malicious entries brought by Search.OffersBar.com.

• Hold and press Win key and R key together to bring up Run box.
• Type “regedit” and press on Run button to bring up Database.
• Add DisableRegistryTools to the following entry with the value named DWORD and set its value as “1”.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

• Remove the following listed entries:

HKCR\CLSID\{random number}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{random number}
HKCR\CrossriderApp{random number}.BHO
HKCU\Software\InstalledBrowserExtensions\{random number} Apps|{random number}

Step3. show hidden files and folders generated by Search.OffersBar.com from local disk.

Windows 7/XP/Vista – access Start menu and go to Control Panel; double click on “user accounts and family safety” to browse to ‘Folder Options’; hit View tab then to tick ‘Show hidden files and folders’ and non-tick ‘Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)’; press ‘OK’ button to confirm.

Windows 8 – double click on Windows Explorer to hit its View tab; tick ‘File name extensions’ and ‘Hidden items’ options; confirm the change by pressing “OK” button.

Files and folders to be deleted:

C:\WINDOWS\JAVA\Packages\CVLV1NBB.ZIP\ActiveXComponent.class or C:\WINDOWS\JAVA\Packages\5NZVFPF1.ZIP\ActiveXComponent.class
C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\[affected browser]\Profiles\
C:\Users\AppData\LocalLow\[it can be Search.OffersBar.com, snap.do or babylon]

Search.OffersBar.com Conclusion

Carrying malicious ActiveX, Applet and JavaScript documents, Search.OffersBar.com manages to escape automatic detection and deletion by installed anti-virus programs as they are considered to be used by computer programmers by default.  But some powerful antivirus programs like Kaspersky and Malwarebytes can easily detect and remove Search.OffersBar.com from your computer. Also, you will handle the Search.OffersBar.com removal if you could follow the virus removal guides in this article above.